PPSSPP 1.7 released – Major speed boosts in some games, crash fixes on Note 9 and som

Great to see the PSP Emulator written in Java is still getting updates:

PPSSPP is a PSP emulator that’s available for a many platforms including PCs, Android and iOS.

PPSSPP 1.7, which came 5 months after PPSSPP 1.6, comes along with the following updates:

Greatly improved performance in some Gundam and Earth Defense Force games, including Earth Defense 2 PortableA fix for crashes related to Vulkan rendering on the Galaxy Note 9, some Xiaomi devices and the new Nvidia Shield

DTM:Race Driver and some other games had some rendering issues fixed thanks to the implementation of vertex range culling

Issues with post-processing shaders on OpenGL 3+ were fixed. Some issues relating to sound output switching on Windows (via WASAPI) were also fixed

Some texture decoding code was optimised which could improve loading times in some games, namely Medal of Honor Heroes 2, when using Vulkan rendering